[AccessD] New Language

It sounds like your daughter has a very rare disease and her life will be
very challenged. It does appear that she is growing up in the best
environment and will be able to reach her full potential. It seems that she
has achieved a great deal and has an almost gifted ability with computers.

Your little scientist sounds like he is off to a great start and with you as
his father his success is assured.

Now I had better watch out for the Off Topic police...;-)

Jim



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Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 1:25 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] New Language

My daughter Allie will turn 8 in June.  She has a genetic duplication
meaning that she has 2 copies 
of a section of one gene.  Bad news, it causes low intellectual functioning
- IQ ~ 70, speech 
apraxia, general muscle planning problems etc.

But Allie knows how to use the computer.  She cannot type (or read very well
yet) but she can play 
her games, gets on YouTube and watches videos, she can navigate the
interface for the Windows 7 
video center etc.  Her teachers are amazed at her computer skills.

Her favorite thing in all the world is to do the scanning of our stuff at
checkout at the grocery 
store.  :)

She has most of the checkers wrapped around her finger. ;)

Robbie OTOH is a marginally gifted little guy, very bright.  A little
scientist / engineer, loves 
anything in that area of knowledge.  With luck he will be a doctor and
support me in my old age.  ;)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 4/11/2011 3:58 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> My daughters have all grown up with computers. From childhood, their rooms
> have been wired for computers...coax cable and all. My oldest daughter
> learned to type on the keyboard before she could talk. She would sit in my
> lap and enter the keys as I called them out. She could start up the
> Commodore 64 and load games from memory.
>
> My youngest daughter made her first web site when she was ten, a
Sailor-moon
> site. ;-) At that time she used notepad to build her site and she knew
more
> about web sites and HTML coding than I did.
>
> Today, both my daughters are married or in a long term relationship with
> programmers (both with a least one degree in computer science) and they
all
> work in the business; one in computer graphic designer (and fashion
design)
> and two in animation and one as an application developer but if pushed the
> girls are both pretty good programmers (At the age of 15 my oldest
daughter
> was short-listed in a job competition and the company sent her their whole
> software line as a consolation...It was Blizzard software with Warcraft
> etc.)
>
> The one I feel sorry for is my wife Maria who totally non-computer
literate
> and has to listen to rest of the family talk shop and coding etc. at ever
> family gathering.
>
> I really hope your wife likes computers. ;-)
>
> Jim
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